Category: Transportation
Whatever it takes to get to point A to point B… by air, rail, road or sea
“Autobahn Courier”, 1934
Mercedes-Benz W29 500 K “Autobahn Courier”, 1934. The aerodynamically designed body marked a starting point for the development of powerful luxury cars with streamlined bodies.
Airships for Lenin, 1931
1931 Soviet poster reading: “We are building a fleet of airships for Lenin”
Two Beauties, 1938
Pennsylvania Railroad’s Broadway Limited and Studebaker President
Caribbean Clipper Routes, 1930s
Pan American Airways Caribbean Routes, mid 1930s
Phantom Corsair, 1938
Soviet Airship B4, 1934
“City of San Fransisco”, 1938
“CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO” streamliner left Oakland Pier terminal in two sections on January 2, 1938, when the new ultra-modern 17-car train was inaugurated to supplant the original 11-car train which had been in operation since June 14, 1936, for the SP-UP-C&NW between San Francisco and Chicago. Both trains carried capacity loads of holiday travelers. The original streamliner was assigned to other service after this trip. (Wikipedia)
Bennie Railplane, 1930
The Bennie Railplane was a form of rail transport invented by George Bennie (1891–1957), which moved along an overhead rail by way of propellers. Bennie, born at Auldhouse, near Glasgow, Scotland began work on the development of his railplane in 1921. In 1929-1930 he built a prototype on a trial stretch of track over a 130-yard (119-metre) line at Milngavie, off the Glasgow and Milngavie Junction Railway, with one railplane car to demonstrate the system to potential clients. The car ran along an overhead monorail, stabilized by guide rails below. It moved by propellers powered by on-board motors. It was intended to run above conventional railways, separating faster passenger traffic from slower freight traffic. Bennie believed his railplane cars had the capability of traveling up to 120 mph (193 km/h) and would offer a “fast passenger and mails and perishable goods service”. Slow and heavy goods freight and local passenger services would continue on the traditional rail service below. Each car could carry a maximum of 48 people, although the prototype had seating for fewer. (Wikipedia)
Quadruple Decker Bus, 1931
April fools joke, from 1931 edition of the Milwaukee Sentinel from an unnamed Berlin newspaper
